Virtual University? Knowledge, Markets, and Management

Name: Virtual University? Knowledge, Markets, and Management
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ISBN: 9780199257935

ISBN-10: 0199257930

ISBN-13: 9780199257935

Edition: 2002

Authors: Kevin Robins, Frank Webster

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The Virtual University? brings together some of the best-known writers on contemporary social change to reflect on the radical transformations going on in higher education. Expansion, technology, and changing financial and performance structures have altered universities, affecting the way they are managed, their relations with the corporate world, their employees, and their users/customers/students. Has a culture of collegiality been replaced by one of managerialism? Has the liberal/national university been replaced by the global/virtual one? What changes does the digital world bring to the practice and experience of education? The book refuses to adopt a narrow focus towards its subject,…

Book details

List price: $77.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/30/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 342
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Professor Frank Webster comes from a small coal-mining village in the south west of County Durham in North East England. He attended Coundon Junior School from 1956-62 and Spennymoor Secondary School from 1962-69, then read Sociology at the University of Durham (BA, MA, 1972, 1974). He completed his formal studies at the London School of Economics (LSE, PhD 1



Notes on Contributors



The New Global Context



The Virtual University?




Globalizing the Academy




The University and Modernity: A History of the Present




The University in the 'Global' Economy




Practices and Policies



Working through the Work of Making Work Mobile




The Virtual University: The Learner's Perspective




New Managerialism: The Manager-academic and Technologies of Management in Universities--Looking Forward to Virtuality?




Exporting Management: Neo-imperialism and Global Consumerism




Saving the Soul of the University: What Is To Be Done?




Commodity and Community: Institutional Design for the Networked University




Prospects and Possibilities



Marketizing Higher Education: Neoliberal Strategies and Counter-Strategies




Digital Discourses, OnLine Classes, Electronic Documents: Developing New University Technocultures




Rehearsal for the Revolution




Some Consequences of the New Information and Communication Technologies for Higher Education



Afterword: What will be the Global Identity of the University?



Index